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[cyrohound]

This thread is for dumb questions, observations, and thoughts that have no effect on gameplay, but you wonder about them anyway. The paradoxes of the Dwarf Fortress universe, if you will. I'll start.

• If lakes, Oceans, and rivers freeze in winter, and anything in them becomes encased in ice and dies, why aren't fish endangered?
• When a dwarf in a mood makes a jade bed, does he magically grow the gem and then cut it into a full bed, or is the bed really tiny and the dwarf that sleeps in it just pretends it's full size?
• Vampires can't drink alcohol, yet they still get alcohol withdrawal.

[Thisfox]

2. When a dwarf in a mood makes a jade bed, does he magically grow the gem and then cut it into a full bed, or is the bed really tiny and the dwarf that sleeps in it just pretends it's full size?

I would assume that seeing as the bed is magical (made in a mood), it just shrinks the user as needed, then enlarges them again afterwards.
...That, and perhaps the gems are just really big. I mean, it doesn't take many of them to make a window.

[Vilkku92]

3. Vampires can't drink alcohol, yet they still get alcohol withdrawal.

Well, It wouldn't be much of a curse otherwise, now would it?

[chevil]

2. When a dwarf in a mood makes a jade bed, does he magically grow the gem and then cut it into a full bed, or is the bed really tiny and the dwarf that sleeps in it just pretends it's full size?

I would assume that seeing as the bed is magical (made in a mood), it just shrinks the user as needed, then enlarges them again afterwards.
...That, and perhaps the gems are just really big. I mean, it doesn't take many of them to make a window.

What if the bed is made of super thin gem chips glued into the shape of the bed?

[Thisfox]

2. When a dwarf in a mood makes a jade bed, does he magically grow the gem and then cut it into a full bed, or is the bed really tiny and the dwarf that sleeps in it just pretends it's full size?

I would assume that seeing as the bed is magical (made in a mood), it just shrinks the user as needed, then enlarges them again afterwards.
...That, and perhaps the gems are just really big. I mean, it doesn't take many of them to make a window.

What if the bed is made of super thin gem chips glued into the shape of the bed?

Ah yes, a gemstone veneer. The moody dwarf just cut the gems very very thin indeed. I like that.

As when we call a cup of tea "tea" despite the fact that it's mostly water, with plenty of sugar, and milk, with just a little tea in it. Yet it's still tea.

[Grand Sage]

Here is a question: Is there a thread in this forum that Thisfox has not posted in?

...sry for the sidetrack, but seriously man, you gotta be some DF expert by now...

[Thisfox]

....Um. huh. I often don't post for weeks at a time, honestly. Hmm. I read and post at a different time to you, because Australian. So it's possible my posts are more visible than someone who posts on an American or European timethread, I guess? They do say girls are more chatty than boys. Perhaps that's my problem.
Gosh. I really should do more lurking and less talking. [facedesk] Sorry mate.

[Grand Sage]

Haha, not a problem, at least you always seem to contribute with something usefull

edit: The tavern thread proves my point though, you were, once more, the first person to reply to my comment

[TheBiggerFish]

Here is a question: Is there a thread in this forum that Thisfox has not posted in?

...
inb4 Thisfox is secretly a clone of me.
*cough not anything on the lower boards though, 'cause I'd've seen them do it cough*
I mean the PTW is a thing.

Which I may as well do.

[Thisfox]

Haha, not a problem, at least you always seem to contribute with something usefull

I do my best to stay constructive.

[Splint]

Random thoughts/questions

Why have dwarves not developed thier own versions of great weapons that humans use?

How come everyone and their brother knows how to cavalry, but not your own people that you control? Are your people the ones too scared to ride anything into battle? (I noticed this phenomenon in Masterwork - Dwarves will ride cavern animals into battle - if you play as a non-dwarf race and agitate them in some manner, and likewise any race you play as will refuse to cavalry as normal.)

Why can we not truly domesticate things, even if we have literally domesticated entire generations of things like dralthas and cave dragons?

How come vampires are too stupid to just drink some booze when they feel the withdrawal headaches set in? I mean shit man, I'll take a placebo even once the caffeine withdrawal headaches start.

Why can't I tell my militia to use mugs and chairs to beat intruders to death? Or a bag of full of freshly minted money? I WANT A MILITIA MADE UP OF LITERAL MURDER-MERCHANTS DAMN IT.

[oldmansutton]

Here is a question: Is there a thread in this forum that Thisfox has not posted in?

...sry for the sidetrack, but seriously man, you gotta be some DF expert by now...

Since she absolutely detests Facebook, I'd imagine the void must be filled with SOMETHING besides gin and tonics.

"Like many others of her kind, she enjoys posting in the Bay12 Forums."

[Thisfox]

Here is a question: Is there a thread in this forum that Thisfox has not posted in?
...sry for the sidetrack, but seriously man, you gotta be some DF expert by now...

Since she absolutely detests Facebook, I'd imagine the void must be filled with SOMETHING besides gin and tonics.

"Like many others of her kind, she enjoys posting in the Bay12 Forums."

"...She has felt entertained after seeing a great post on Bay12 Forums. She has felt inebriated after playing Drunk Fortress. She has felt euphoric after successfully cracking an aquifer. She has felt startled after reading about herself on Bay12 Forums. She has felt satisfied after interacting with her friends online...."

Heh. There are other things in my life, I promise, and even other forums, but it is nice to sit down of a warm Aussie evening, run a Fort in the background, and read the Bay12 forum posts, and make my own posts, and so on. I think part of me being so noticeable is that I'm posting when other people are asleep, a lot of the time. But I do post a lot. I'll look into that.

[oldmansutton]

She has felt startled after reading about herself on Bay12 Forums.

This part made me laugh.

[Rusty Shackleford]

Anyone else jealous of the huge variety of food and booze available to dwarves?